Blue CapThe General Stud Book notes that if Blue Cap,
sire of the Blue Cap Mare, was the same
horse as Penruddock's Blue Cap then he was sired by Old Greyhound [GSB 1:88]. However, this seems unlikely as Mr Penruddock's Blue Cap placed
2nd in the King's Plate at Salisbury in 1729, won by Sir William
Strickland's Batt
(b c 1723
Strickland
Turk). This would indicate that his year of birth was also around 1723 and
does not allow enough time for his great-grandson Bolton Goliah to arrive in
1730. Both the Turf Register and the Racing Calendar
record the horse in question as Sir Matthew Pierson's Blue Cap [Pick 1:41 & Cheny 1744:xxviii].
An earlier Blew Cap belonging to King Charles II ran at
Newmarket in 1674 and 1675.